Portable canopy.



No. 811,460. PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906. A. VOORHIES.-

PORTABLE CANOPY.

APPLIOATIOK FILED APR. 13. 1905.

Witnesse; f, hm Inventor.

Attorneys ALEXIS VOORI-IIES, OF NEIV IBERIA, LOUISIANA.

PORTABLE CANOPY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed April 13, 1905. Serial No. 255,415.

To ctZl whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXIS Voonnnrs, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Iberia, in the parish of Iberia and State of Louisiana, have invented a new'and useful Portable Canopy, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable shades or canopies for use by cotton-pickers and the like, and has for its object to effect certain new and useful improvements in this class of devices so as to enable the convenient handling thereof in moving the same along the rows of plants and also to permit of the convenient adjusting of the canopy with respect to the supporting-frame thereof, so as to accommodate the canopy to the position of the sun in order to locate the shade or shadow at the desired point.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portable shade or canopy constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a fragmentary sectional view of a modification.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawings.

As embodied in the accompanying drawings, the present device includes an arched supporting-frame made up of four corner posts or standards 1, which are provided at their upper ends with three-way couplings or brackets 2 for the reception of the end and side top frame-bars 3 and 4-. At the lower end of each post or standard there is a T- coupling 5 for connection with the adjacent end of a lower end cross-bar 6 and for the reception of the stem or spindle of a casterwheel 7, whereby the frame is wheel-supported. Inverted substantially U shaped braces 8 extend between the lower ends of the posts 1 and the upper cross-bars, to

which they are connected, as at 9, by rivets or other suitable fastenings.v

The canopy-frame comprises a frame-bar 10, which. is provided at each end with a T coupling or bracket 11, through the head of which passes a cross-bar 12, capable of endwise adjustment through the coupling .and held against looseness by means of a set screw 13 piercing the coupling. The ends of this cross-bar are hooked, as at 14, and a rope or cord 15 extends between the corresponding ends of the two fraine-bars 1 1, there being a canopy 16 of canvas or other suitable material stretched over the canopy-frame independently of the supporting-frame.

The canopy-frame of course rests upon the supporting-frame and has its longitudinal bar 10 received in and adjustable endwise through the alined seats or brackets 17, carried by the top bars 1 of the supportingi'rame. As best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, it will be noted that each. of these seats is in the nature of an eyebolt piercing the bar 4 and the top of the adjacent brace 8 intermediate of the fastenings 9, there being a set-screw 18 piercing the top of the seat or bracket for engagen'ient with the bar 10 to hold the latter against looseness when adjusted to any desired position.

When the device is set up, as hereinbefore described, the canopy is supported in an elevated position to permit of a picker or pickers working in the shade cast by the canopy, the front and rear sides of the supportingframe of course being open to enable the convenient passage therethrough of the pickers. The entire device may be readily shifted along the rows of plants merely by pushing and pulling upon the Wheel-supported frame without dismantling or adjusting the device in any manner whatsoever. Moreover, the canopy-frame bar 10 may be shifted endwise across the supporting-frame and the canopyframe bars 12 may be shifted across the bar 10 without changing the position of the wheel-supported frame, whereby the canopy may be adjusted with respect to the position of the sun to cast the shade or shadow in the desired position. In this connection it will be noted that the canopy 16 is laced to the bars 11, which exposes the set-screws 13 for convenient adjustment, and by reaching up beneath the canopy over the bars 4 the setscrews 18 may be readily adjusted.

Under some conditions it may be desirable to have the canopy-supporting frame formed of Wooden bars, as indicated in Fig. 4 of the drawings, wherein 10 indicates a non-circular, wooden bar corresponding to the bar 10 and provided upon each end with a T-coupling 11 having noncircular sockets or passages therethrough for the reception of the adjacent end of the bar 10 and also for the Wooden non-circular cross-bar 12, the socket of course being provided with a set-screw 15 to hold the bar 12 against endwise looseness. The seat or socket 17 is of course non-circular in shape to receive the bar 1O" and has a set-screw 18 to hold said bar 1O against endwise looseness. The supporting-frame and the canopy-cover are of course the same as that hereinbefore described.

Having fully described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A portable canopy comprising a supporting-frame, a canopy upon the supporting-frame, means to permit adjustment of the canopy horizontally in one direction across the frame, and other means to permit adjustment of the canopy horizontally in a direction at substantially right angles to the direction of the first adjustment.

2. A portable canopy comprising an arched supporting-frame, and a canopy-frame including a longitudinal bar sustained across the top of the supporting-frame and adjustable endwise thereon, end bars carried by the longitudinal bar and shiftable endwise across the same, and a canopy carried by the end bars and shiftable therewith.

3. A portable canopy comprising an arched supporting-frame having a seat upon the top thereof, a substantially horizontal longitudinal bar supported in the seat and adjustable endwise thereof, means to adjustably fix the bar in the seat, seats upon the ends of the longitudinal bar, cross-bars adjustable endwise through the seats, means to adjustably fix the cross-bars in their seats, and a canopy carried by the cross-bars.

4. Aportable canopy comprising an arched supporting-frame, a seat carried by the top of the frame, a longitudinal bar carried by and adjustable endwise through the'seat, a

set-screw carried by the seat for adjustably fixing the longitudinal bar in the seat, T-couplings carried by the ends of the longitudinal bar, cross-bars shiftable endwise through the couplings, set-screws carried by the couplings to adjustably fix the cross-bars therein, and a canopy carried by the cross-bars.

5. A portable canopy comprising a supporting-frame, a substantially horizontal canopy carried by the frame, and means to permit of the canopy being adjusted horizontally in directions at substantially right angles across the supporting-frame.

6. A portable canopy comprising an arched supporting-frame, a longitudinal bar supported upon the top of the frame and projected at opposite sides thereof, cross-bars carried by the ends of the longitudinal bar and shiftable endwise thereacross, and a canopy carried by the cross-bars.

7. A portable canopy comprising an arched supporting-frame,upstanding eyebolts piercing the top of the frame, a longitudinal bar shiftable endwise through the eyebolts, set screws piercing the eyebolts to adjustably fiX the longitudinal bar therein, cross-bars carried by the ends of the longitudinal bar, and a canopy carried by the end bars.

8, A portable canopy including an arched supporting-frame made up of corner-posts, upper frame-bars connecting the posts, inverted substantially U-shaped braces extending between the respective front and rear pairs of posts and the front and rear top frame-bars, lower frame-bars extending between the front and rear posts, an endwiseadjustable substantially horizontal bar carried by the top frame-bars and projected in front and rear thereof, endwise-adjustable cross-bars carried by the ends of the longitudinal bar, and a canopy carried by the crossbars.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEXIS VOORHIES.

WVitnesses:

CHAS. L. Pnovos'r, P. G. LE BoURoEoIs, 

